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  • Re: icloud photos

    From Alan@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Tue Dec 19 08:53:36 2023
    On 2023-12-19 06:34, badgolferman wrote:
    My iPhone photos are getting backed up to iCloud and Google Photos. I’m considering disabling Google Photos because my storage quota is getting
    full from other files.

    Other than using a desktop browser to login to iCloud, is there a way to
    view the photos being stored on iCloud? I know I can see the photos on the iPhone Photos app, but I want to see what has actually been backed up for verification purposes. Google Photos allows that.



    How does Google Photos "allow" it?

    And what would be wrong with using a browser to log in to iCloud to
    check the totals and see that they match?

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Tue Dec 19 09:43:35 2023
    On 2023-12-19 09:20, badgolferman wrote:
    Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
    On 2023-12-19 06:34, badgolferman wrote:
    My iPhone photos are getting backed up to iCloud and Google Photos. I’m >>> considering disabling Google Photos because my storage quota is getting
    full from other files.

    Other than using a desktop browser to login to iCloud, is there a way to >>> view the photos being stored on iCloud? I know I can see the photos on the >>> iPhone Photos app, but I want to see what has actually been backed up for >>> verification purposes. Google Photos allows that.



    How does Google Photos "allow" it?

    By providing a separate phone app to see what’s on the cloud.

    And what would be wrong with using a browser to log in to iCloud to
    check the totals and see that they match?


    Extra steps and devices.

    Different steps really no more, and on the same device.

    You can sign in to iCloud in Safari on an iPhone or iPad. And since a
    browser is something you want on your smartphone anyway, you actually
    need to have one LESS app in order to check what is in the cloud this way.

    I just did it.

    I signed into iCloud in Safari on my iPhone and I can see precisely how
    many photos and videos are there.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 19 18:55:45 2023
    Am 19.12.23 um 18:20 schrieb badgolferman:
    Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
    On 2023-12-19 06:34, badgolferman wrote:
    My iPhone photos are getting backed up to iCloud and Google Photos. I’m >>> considering disabling Google Photos because my storage quota is getting
    full from other files.

    Other than using a desktop browser to login to iCloud, is there a way to >>> view the photos being stored on iCloud? I know I can see the photos on the >>> iPhone Photos app, but I want to see what has actually been backed up for >>> verification purposes. Google Photos allows that.



    How does Google Photos "allow" it?

    By providing a separate phone app to see what’s on the cloud.

    Overkill and typical Google nonsense.

    And what would be wrong with using a browser to log in to iCloud to
    check the totals and see that they match?


    Extra steps and devices.

    Same device just switching to the browser. What are you afraid of?

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    "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 19 12:12:44 2023
    On 2023-12-19 09:55, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
    Am 19.12.23 um 18:20 schrieb badgolferman:
    Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
    On 2023-12-19 06:34, badgolferman wrote:
    My iPhone photos are getting backed up to iCloud and Google Photos. I’m >>>> considering disabling Google Photos because my storage quota is getting >>>> full from other files.

    Other than using a desktop browser to login to iCloud, is there a
    way to
    view the photos being stored on iCloud? I know I can see the photos
    on the
    iPhone Photos app, but I want to see what has actually been backed
    up for
    verification purposes. Google Photos allows that.



    How does Google Photos "allow" it?

    By providing a separate phone app to see what’s on the cloud.

    Overkill and typical Google nonsense.

    And what would be wrong with using a browser to log in to iCloud to
    check the totals and see that they match?


    Extra steps and devices.

    Same device just switching to the browser. What are you afraid of?


    Logic and sense apparently.

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  • From MummyChunk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 21 13:37:03 2023
    Am 19.12.23 um 18:20 schrieb badgolferman:
    Alan <nuh> wrote:
    On 2023-12-19 06:34, badgolferman wrote:
    My iPhone photos are getting backed up to iCloud and Google
    Photos. I´m
    considering disabling Google Photos because my storage quota is
    getting
    full from other files.

    Other than using a desktop browser to login to iCloud, is there
    a way to
    view the photos being stored on iCloud? I know I can see the
    photos on the
    iPhone Photos app, but I want to see what has actually been
    backed up for
    verification purposes. Google Photos allows that.



    How does Google Photos "allow" it?

    By providing a separate phone app to see what´s on the cloud.



    Overkill and typical Google nonsense.

    And what would be wrong with using a browser to log in to iCloud
    to
    check the totals and see that they match?


    Extra steps and devices.

    Jörg Lorenz wrote:


    Same device just switching to the browser. What are you afraid of?

    --
    "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)

    Just like the Google app being so pushy to auto upload photos. Why do
    they want our photos so bad??


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657567593#657567593

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